Phil Vernon: Peacebuilding, International Development & Poetry.

Vast

December 10, 2018

for Barbara Hepworth
How did you know
before you reached inside and opened it,
the surfaces within a solid sphere would be
so vast
that light would brush their grain like fingertips
and never die?
How did you know
the only place to tilt and tap the blade;
how did you dare to make
the first – the final – cut?
How did you know
what we did not –
and would not, still:
our fear of seeing space unfolding endlessly?
First published in Pennine Platform no. 84 and The Ekphrastic Review